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IN SLAVE HUNTING DAYS
| A Pennsylvania Riet aad the Trials which
| Grow Out or It.
LANCASTER, Pa, Oct. Gin November,
1851. an extraordinary session OF court was
held In Philadelphia. It was q United States
| Court and was presided over by Justices Grier
and Kane. 1t had been called for the trial Of
man charged with high treason, and It's pro-
| ceedings arc part OF the country's history.
| There Ia but ono other case Of the kind on tho
| records OF tho Government that OF Aaron
| Burr. The counsel engaged in the case were
| chosen from the most brilliant and eminent
lawyers Of the day-nearly all Of them with ma
tional regulations When q jury to try the case
was being selected. among those called was
"Simon Cameron OF Dauphin county" Simon
Cameron responded to his name. but begged
to be excused from serving on account Of his
"ill health" Ho was excused. Another call
was for Caleb Cope OF Philadelphia" Caleb
Cope begged to DO stricken from the list Of
jurors because Of his "inArmities." Mr.. Cope
was finally excused.
Ofthe Jury that was obtained-all strong and
| healthy men Of middle a9e-but one survives
| to-day. Both Justices are dead. Not one Of
the counsel engaged in the case, 80 far as is
known. is alive Simon Cameron. still OF Dau-
phin county, Is not only alive and we'll and
hearty, in spite Of tho Ill health that incapaci-
tated him for Juror thirty-six years ago. Ca
leb Cope, whose inflrmities threatened to carry
him of in November. 1851, is still lively citi-
zen of Philadelphia and almost a centenarian.
James NJ. Hopkins Of this county. the surviving
Juror Of that historic trial. is white-headed.
feeble, and almost blind. His presence In this
city few days ago recalled to an old resident
the Incidents of the trial and the tragic circum-
cumstances that led to it. and the fact. known
to but few even. in Lancaster county. that the
tastner Hanway the person on trial for his
| life, Ia still alive.
the Ea%ard Of four s
zen Of Baltimore county, Maryland, ran away
from their masters plantation near Cocker.
Fugitive Slave ' law. and Col GorsucS. having
traced his slaves Into Pennsy l, an !h 10
saas nfas.sE sSaRf RSS Fhs
the runa% wi Under the proysions 81 tie new
law Gommissioper lpgr na Issued war r.
m9pd: and George Hammond; the ia ,s I, -,
at that time g. where , the abolition feel.
ing was as strong as It was among the
e. Shesoq snd
That element predominated: and It. l., was an
ana
to safer localities. In spite Of the Fugitive Slave
law and its heavy penalties; k, On tho . other
does. led by men prominent in southern Lam
caster county. who besides operating extern;
q sobSess carried on bas
ness, not only In capturing runaway slaves and
e. pa
Pennsylyania. These kidnGpped negro g. the
n o ns T fRa
outlaws was called the Gap Gang" by the
general public but the Quaker, and negroes,
them she ' BfSSo Ises Gans ~ 'a''
In, several instances members Of the gang
went boldly to farms whore native free negroes
them Ef op some alleged Carried them OH
munity. Amos Clemson, a. man Of excellent
tbe sbe 81 be ap
hs for tt TN St
prosecution that o negro named Sam Williams
S$ s9$
negro na%sd Parker three miles from 3hI A.
ss o % his 9We sons she
and Joshua Gorauch. and his nephew, pr.
Th9pas pearee HscompanpieSd n Marshal Kline
stepped M the
and demanded the surrender Of the slaves. An
was fred from window. Horns were also
blown from the windows. and In less than a
surrounded By a Hundred excited negroes. who
and woods, armed with corn cutters, guns.
al About the same time Cashier Hanway.
Quaker. who was the miller Of the neighbor.
riding on horseback to the scene. Hines story
was that he called on the two Quakers to aid
e * s .
ment Both Hanway and Lewis refused to in
IN ANY d%sSg es
negroes, and he iell to the, ground. He was
then attacked with the corn IniEes and pitch
His son Dickerson wns badly wounded. and
DR.. .Pearce. and the others narrowly escaped
The body Of Col aorsuci was wa final tlnsly rescued
FS %ss q S sas aS
SUCH recovered from NH his S woI1d i,
in the case. and the prisoners were handed
|
Lancaster county. Hanwny and Lewis were
charged In the United States Court with high
| treason. and Hanways trial was called on Nov.
10, 1851. His counsel were Thaddeus Stevens,
John N; Read. subsequently Judge Of the Su-
| preme Court Of Pennsylvania; Theodore Guy
Ter, and Joseph ]. Lewis. The prosecution was
representsd by United States Senator James
OF Maryland; James Il. Ludlow, United
States District Attorney George T. Ash;
and shsTs less he sdsa
who crowded Into the court room every day
and gave encouragement to the prisoner was
| Lucretia Mott, During the trial the Court, on
motion OF Thahdous stevens, ordered that the
colored prisoners should be brought into
identify certain persons among them who were
engaged In the Christiana riot. The negroes
were all dressed alike, and each one wore a
red,, white. and blue scarf as he was mar
| shalled In q row In the court room. Kline failed
| to identify any one OF them. remarking that
"the devil couldn't toll them apart in that toy
gerry" The costuming OF the negroes had been
| the work of the Women's Anti-SIavery Society.
| The defence made by HanMay was TINT he